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Yesterday, President Obama sent out his first publicly observable tweet starting off a new form of online Town Hall meeting, a Twitter town hall: http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/199764862/wh_twitter_back.jpg) no-repeat #f2f2f2; padding: 20px; margin: 8px 0;">Follow @whitehouse@whitehouseThe White House in order to... [read more]
Photograph by Pete Souza. This Feature Friday article is written by Jessica Wagner. It sounds staggering but President Barack Obama will likely break $1 billion in political fundraising for his 2012 re-election campaign. While this number is mind boggling and sure to incite its share of political debate, that kind of dough... [read more]
This week the White House blog posted a message from Macon Phillips, the White House Director of New Media, titled “TooManyWebsites.gov”. This initiate is part of the Campaign to Cut Waste that the White House launched this week, quoting the President: “As President Obama has said, we can’t win the future with a government of the past.”... [read more]
The role of mobile phones, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter in the revolutions that have swept the Middle East in 2011′s historic “Arab Spring” has been the subject of much debate for months. While connection technologies helped to accelerate and amplify the news coming out of Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Bahrain and the rest of the... [read more]
This morning, the White House posted President Obama’s long form birth certificate to the public. Now that the White House has released the president’s long form birth certificate to the media (and directly over Twitter to everyone) I hope that the country can move on to the much greater issues that confront the country and humanity... [read more]
Last December, the White House proposed sweeping IT reforms. Today in Washington, the nation’s top IT executives will discuss progress on those proposals and assess the challenges that lie ahead. The livestream is embedded below: This morning, President Obama issued an executive order streamlining service delivery and improving customer... [read more]
As Daniel Schuman wrote on the Sunlight Foundation’s blog today, Delaware Senator Tom Carper wrote yesterday to federal CIO Vivek Kundra about the effects of a 75% cut to e-government funding at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), including questions about how the Obama administration intends to go forward. For... [read more]
A majority of the country, and virtually the entire Federal Government, now uses the Internet to do business, learn about programs, shop, talk to friends, and engage in a host of other activities. Some 2 billion people around the world engage in online commerce that will soon exceed $10 trillion; individuals place their information... [read more]
Hope you didn’t miss this. In his State of the Union speech, President Obama talked about reorganizing government to consolidate programs/services. “There are 12 different agencies that deal with exports. There are at least five different agencies that deal with housing policy. Then there's my favorite example: The Interior Department... [read more]
President Barack Obama joins a toast with Technology Business Leaders at a dinner in Woodside, California, Feb. 17, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) White House press secretary Jay Carney issued the following statement after President Obama met with Silicon Valley leaders, including Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs,... [read more]
Much has been made over the recent ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson in Florida on the health care reform bill. The most significant point is that he chose to use the Obama administration’s arguments against them, stating that the entire law is unconstitutional. What I found more interesting was an argument that the law... [read more]
Intel, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Facebook are among the technology companies joining a new initiative from President Barack Obama to encourage entrepreneurship. The companies are part of a multi-sector pledge to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to high-growth industries of clean energy, medicine, advanced manufacturing,... [read more]
Ok. These issues were in the State of the Union address, but they were not addressed with a full grasp on reality. I have no doubt that I will end up being fired on from both sides for this, and someone will try to say that these issues were adequately addressed in the speech. That’s fine. For now, I am writing this mostly because I... [read more]
A handful of governors spoke out Wednesday to lend their support to President Barack Obama’s compromise with Congressional Republicans to extend a number of tax breaks, including controversial cuts for those who make above $200,000 per year. In most statements, governors commended the compromise, while highlighting those cuts that are... [read more]
Talking about the Gulf oil disaster in a speech last week at Carnegie Mellon University, President Obama said we need an energy-and-climate bill because the only way the transition to clean energy will ultimately succeed is if the private sector is fully invested in this future — if capital comes off the sidelines and the ingenuity of... [read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
John Kamensky is a Senior Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government. More »
Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
I understand that there's always a need to experiment for new design to make it better but they also keep in mind that the more they add details, the more they make it complicated. The CFPB, which opened up for business last summer, said Wednesday that it will next be going after loan providers ...
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Talking about transparency and actually doing it are two different things. It ...